Plate or stove-cover rack



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..l

SCOTT D.' JORDAN, OF CAPE ELIZABETH, AND WILLIAM A. CLARK, OF

' DEERING, MAINE.

PLATE OR STOVE-COVER RACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 235,362, dated December14, 1880.

Application filed August 5, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that we, SCOTT D. JORDAN, of Cape Elizabeth, and WILLIAM A.CLARK, of Deering, both in the county of Cumberland and State of Maine,have invented a new and useful Improvement in a Plate or StoveGoverRack, which improvement is fully set forth in the followingspecification and accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a sideview of the plate or stove rack with a section of the edge of the topot' a stove; and Fig. 2 is a transverse and sectional view of the rackand a part of the top of a stove, taken on the line of w fc in Fig. l.

The object of our invention is to furnish an improved portable plate orstove-cover rack which may be held in atvertical positionon a wall, withplates resting on it beyond 'the reach ot' rats and mice; and, also, itmay be suspended on the edge ot' a kitchen-stove to set the covers onwhile cooking-utensils are used on the stove.

It consists of a back piece to which are hinged a series of circularwire shelves, so constructed as to be unable to dropbelow a horizontalposition relative to the vertical back piece, and at the same time becapable of being turned upward against the said back piece, and a socketwith two arms with setscrews to be attached to the top of a stove, and astandard to receive and hold the rack, allot' which is hereinafter morefully described and claimed.

In the drawings, a is a back piece with a space in its upper end, bywhich it may be suspended upon a nail o1' hook in the desired place.Upon the two edges of the said back piece, a, are eyes d d d, with ahalf-circle and bevel from the back side of the back piece, a, for eachot' the eyes d al d, the said eyes so arranged as to have the casting ofthe back piece, a, made in such a Way that there will be an aperture ineach of the eyes d d d without drilling.

The shelves l Z Z are formed of a single piece of wire bent into acircularshape, and having its ends bent ont from the circle, forming theparallels f g, and upward at right angles with the shelf, thus making arest against the back piece, a, at r, and outward at right angles withthe parallelsfand g, making the hooks h h, which secures the shelf l tothe back piece, a, through the eye d, which shelf lis supported in ahorizontal position by the two elbows on each end of it. When the shelfis constructed the two parallelsf and g are taken in thc hand and sprungtoward each other until they can be hooked into the eyes d d. Theseshelves are to be arranged one above another on the back a in anydesired number, and when not in use are to be turned upward against theback piece, a, or unhooked and put in any desired place, and thus occupyvery little space.l

The back piece, a, is also provided with holes at i o, to receive thehook a and pin m ou the standard s, which hook a and pin m secures thesaid standard s to the back piece, a, by placing the said standard s atright angles with the back piece, a, and inserting the hook u into thehole t', and then swinging the said standard s around until the pin msprings into the hole o near the lower end ofthe back piece, a. Theholesfi 0 should be countersunk on the t'ront side of the back piece, a.

The standard s rests in its socket k, which is attached to the stove eby placing the corner formed by the socket 7c and arm w against the edgeof the stove e and adjusting the said socket 7a in a vertical positionby the use of the set-screws c t, thus forming a fastening which willsuit any stove.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

The plate or stove-cover rack consisting of the back piece, a, providedwith the eyes d, the hinged shelves l, the standard s, and socket k,with the arm w, substantially as and for the purpose described.

. SCOTT D. JORDAN.

WILLIAM A. CLARK. Witnesses:

C. A. CLARK, E. E. CLARK.

